This page is a garden of love. Each quote, a blossom. 🌸 Tolstoy wrote, “All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”

Next to God, love is the word most mangled in every language. The highest form of regard between two people is friendship, and when love enters, friendship dies. ~ Richard Bach

Men do not settle down. Men surrender. ~ Chris Rock

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding. ~ Diane Arbus

Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Hold fast to whatever fragments of love are left, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern. ~ Dawn Powell

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime... therefore we must be saved by love. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and hope of all. ~ Dorothy Day

If we do not love, we are nothing. And, if we are not loved ourselves, we are nobody. ~ Bernard S. Raskas

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object? ~ Confucius

Love is a chain of love as Nature is a chain of life. ~ Truman Capote

Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you. ~ Anita Shreve

Love is not in our choice but in our fate. ~ John Dryden

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. ~ Anne-Sophie Swetchine

You learn love by loving—by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done. ~ Aldous Huxley

You know it’s love when it all just kind of falls into place. ~ Lindsay Sloane

You’re just naked. You put yourself in harm’s way and you lay down all your defenses. No clothes, no weapons. Nowhere to hide, completely vulnerable. ~ Mary Doria Russell